Surface by Microsoft — From touch to type, office to living room, from your screen to the big screen, you can see more, share more, and do more with Surface. Create, collaborate, and get stuff done with Office. Explore your world with fast, fluid Windows 8 apps.

Microsoft's Not Competing With the iPad — Not Entirely — Microsoft's new Surface tablet computer is not an iPad competitor. It's an ultrabook competitor. — I mean, of course it's an iPad competitor, but it would appear Microsoft is going after other segments of portable computing as well.

Awesome News - Facebook Acquires Face.com — Facebook has acquired Face.com! Our mission is and has always been to find new and exciting ways to make face recognition a fun, engaging part of people's lives, and incorporate remarkable technology into everyday consumer products.

The MacBook Pro Strikes Back (With Retina Power) — It was nearly two years ago that I said goodbye to my MacBook Pro. I loved the device, but the new MacBook Air was that good. My Pro — which was only six months old at the time! — seemed like total overkill for my computing needs.

Apple removes hints of future products from a key file in iOS 6 — Once upon a time eager rumormongers would download the latest iteration of the next generation of iOS, and like examining goat entrails to determine the next Caesar, they would delve into the USBDeviceConfiguration.plist to divine upcoming hardware products from Apple.

Twitter slowly unfolding its search ambitions — It has been fairly obvious for a few years that the search-driven, URL-centric web would converge with the web of social objects. It is something that is driving Google's paranoia. It is also something Facebook dreams about.

Fixing the CAPTCHA: turning jumbled words into a game — CAPTCHAs, or those jumbled words you have to enter to prove you're a human on websites, suck. They detract from a website's flow, and as security researchers at Imperva have found, they're actually easily overcome by spammers.

Exclusive: Testing Sprint's New 4G LTE Network — Sprint will be switching on its 4G LTE network soon. We got an exclusive first glimpse as part of our Fastest Mobile Networks project. — Sprint's 3G network is painfully slow. Its old 4G WiMAX network has been punted over to Virgin and Boost.

Introducing Thimble: webmaking made easy — Today we are proud to launch a new Mozilla Webmaker app to the world. Meet Thimble, the new tool that makes it incredibly simple for anyone to create and share their own web pages and other projects in minutes. — Thimble is webmaking made easy.

Royalties From Digital Radio Start to Add Up — After more than a decade, the royalties for Internet radio and other digital music streams are finally starting to add up. — On Monday, SoundExchange, a nonprofit group that processes payments for online streams, will announce …